`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` But that was war '', I said.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I felt certain it was self-appointed.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

I feel a certain loss of status when I am driven up in front of work in a car driven by my wife, who is only a woman.

The logic of that is impeccable, of course, except that I feel like a fool being driven up to work in a little car, by my wife, when everybody knows I have a big car and am capable of driving myself.

I had driven him into the arms of that scheming woman.

I saw then, too, the stake driven straight and hard into the plowed soil, through something there where I had been not long before.

I wrenched the stake out, that the boy had driven through it in the thickest part of its body, between the colored diamond crystals.

* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

Greco-Bactria continued until c. 130 BC, when Eucratides ' son, King Heliocles I, was defeated and driven out of Bactria by the Yuezhi tribes.

The republic proved short-lived as Albania collapsed with the onset of World War I. Greece held the area between 1914 and 1916, and unsuccessfully tried to annex it in March 1916, however in 1917 it was driven from the area by Italy, who took over most of Albania.

: (" I am driven by my longing ")

The early vehicles, such as the Series I, were field-tested at Long Bennington and designed to be field-serviced ; advertisements for Rovers cite vehicles driven thousands of miles on banana oil.

Photius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, shortly after the council in which he had pronounced sentence of deposition against Pope Nicholas I, was driven from the patriarchate by a new emperor, Basil the Macedonian, who favoured his rival Ignatius.

About African Americans, Roosevelt said, " I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent, but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have.

He is going to be a great baseball player and I won't allow him to be driven off this club.

Another possible contributing factor is that Harald I of Norway (" Harald Fairhair ") had united Norway around this time, and the bulk of the Vikings were displaced warriors who had been driven out of his kingdom and who had nowhere to go.

For a lightly damped linear oscillator with a resonance frequency Ω, the intensity of oscillations I when the system is driven with a driving frequency ω is typically approximated by a formula that is symmetric about the resonance frequency:

The Umayyad dynasty was expelled, driven back to Al-Andalus where Abd ar-Rahman I established an emirate in Córdoba in opposition to the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad.

By turning from side to side, I had driven the cats from their place at the foot of the bed, and they were disgruntled.

Participation in a variety of events continued until World War I, but it was in 1912 that Peugeot made its most notable contribution to motor sporting history when one of their cars, driven by Georges Boillot, won the French Grand Prix at Dieppe.

Sir Ed. Gre. is gonne to Brestowe and from thence to Lond. as I heare, who verie well knoweth our estates and wil be willinge to do us ani good ''.

I suppose the reason was, because this liberty beyond our hopes appeared to us ; and that thence was the name given to that festival.

:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.

Other writers say that it was interred in Herod's palace at Jerusalem ; there it was found during the reign of Constantine I, and thence secretly taken to Emesa, in Phoenicia, where it was concealed, the place remaining unknown for years, until it was manifested by revelation in 453.

This trend continued under Tukulti-Ninurta I ( 1244 – 1208 BC ) and after a hiatus, Tiglath-Pileser I ( 1115 – 1077 BC ) who conquered the Aramaeans of northern Syria, and thence he proceeded to conquer Damascus and the Canaanite / Phoenician cities of ( Byblos ), Sidon, Tyre and finally Arvad.

: I will go to the uttermost bounds of Oceanus and share the hearth of primeval Tethys ; thence I will pass to the house of Harmonia and abide with Ophion.

Hale moved in the Commons that " a committee might be appointed to look into the overtures that had been made, and the concessions that had been offered, by I " and " from thence to digest such propositions, as they should think fit to be sent over to II " who was still in Breda.

Peter fled with his treasury to Portugal, where he was coldly received by his uncle, King Peter I of Portugal, and thence to Galicia, in the northern Iberian Peninsula, where he ordered the murder of Suero, the archbishop of Santiago, and the dean, Peralvarez.

The name of Petach Tikva was chosen by its founders in 1878 from the prophecy of Hosea ( 2: 15 ), " And I will give her vineyards from thence, and the Valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

In 1623, having been taken in the sack of Heidelberg in the Thirty Years ' War, it was sent with the rest of the Palatine Library to Rome as a present from Maximilian I of Bavaria to Pope Gregory XV, who had it divided into two parts, the first of which was by far the larger ; thence it was taken to Paris in 1797.

p. 404 ) considers that Peter was originally a member of the convent of the Akoimetoi, which he places in Bithynia on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, at Gomon, " The Great Monastery " and being expelled thence for his behavior and heretical doctrine, passed over to Constantinople, where he courted persons of influence, through whom he was introduced to Zeno, the son-in-law of Leo I ( 457 – 474 ) and future emperor ( 474 – 491 ), whose favor he secured, obtaining through him the chief place in the church of St. Bassa, at Chalcedon.

: For thence ,— a paradoxWhich comforts while it mocks ,— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: brute I might have been, but would not sink i ' the scale.

In his introduction to his poem The Phoenix and the Tortoise, Rexroth articulated his understanding of love and marriage: " The process as I see it goes something like this: from abandon to erotic mysticism, from erotic mysticism to the ethical mysticism of sacramental marriage, thence to the realization of the ethical mysticism of universal responsibility.

His father then sent him to Paris in 1716, and thence to Hanover to pay court to George I.

: So took up my wife and home, there I to the office, and thence with Sympson, the joyner home to put together the press he hath brought me for my books this day, which pleases me exceedingly.

Upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth I, however, the nuns left England for the Low Countries, and thence, after many vicissitudes, to Rouen in France and finally, in 1594, to Lisbon the capital of Portugal.

When British officials acquired the land south of the Ohio River in the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix from the Iroquois, Ohio Indians who hunted the land refused to sign the treaty and prepared to defend their hunting rights .< ref >" I likewise advised them to withdraw the Senecas of Ohio from thence and settle them nearer their natural friends as at present by their Connections with others they bring disgrace & suspicion on their own confederacy, and this I was the readier induced to do, as Kayashota the chief of those on Ohio, a man of universal influence was present & had privately assured me that it was agreeable to him.

In 1857, he was posted to the command of a guard brigade at Berlin, and thence almost immediately to a divisional command in the I Corps.

: Beginning at the northwestern angle of lot number ten, granted to William Woodforde, on the Cold Stream ; thence running by the magnet of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven north seventy-two degrees west eight chains to the eastern line of a reserved road, thence following the several courses of the said road by the base line of the lots in a northerly direction to the northwest angle of the lot letter “ I ”, granted to William Bain ; thence south seventy-two degrees and thirty minutes east by the magnet of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, to meet the eastern line of a reserved road ; thence northerly along said road to the northwest angle of lot number fifty-five, in range 5, Johnville ; thence easterly to the southeast angle of lot number fifty-six, on said range 5 of Johnville ; thence easterly in a direct line to the northwest angle of lot number eighty, in block 2, Glassville ; thence easterly along the northern line of said lot and its eastern prolongation to the County line ; thence along the said County line in a southwesterly direction to meet the eastern prolongation of the north line of the said grant to William Woodforde ; thence along the said prolongation and line westerly to the place of beginning.